Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1933 — Page 1

■ Leather tliudy to fair. pr«|f( jed by tn°* (jrtheast portion yvlht; severe cold MV e tonioht; Wedbd»y generally

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■AR VETERAN lonfesses to ■ KILLING YOUTH Confesses Beating B’outh To Death In Kidnaping Plot ORDERER taken ■ TO PENITENTIARY S. C., Dec. 26 — Robert H. Wiles. 49. war veteran, confersWtotlav. according to autlithat lie beat to death Herbert H. HarJr., with an iron bar lie hired the boy to a farm home in an kidnaping plot. who had questioned most of the night, said the for the crime was not but 'he theory was held that intended to collect ransom Kthe boy's father, H. H Ha"vice president of Home note had been delivered to elder Harris, however. in his confession, impliJohn Mar’in Rushton. who maintained to oft'ict-rs he had no part in the plot, the order of Gov. Blackwood, ■i Wiles and Rushton were b“l l in the state [..• iRushton will be qu.-s---by officers. a later statement to police. exonerated Rushton. but questioned Rushton said that after he killed Harris, he met the boy's on the street arrd wished a merry Christmas. After ■ slaying, the confession conhe went about his hush I of soliciting gifts for the bureau as part of a program. A. H. Scarborough, super- < of the state pe.riten'old the United Press that ITss hau made a confession of Big the boy to a deset be 12 miles from here, strikI him on the head with an iron I when the boy showed fight, k dragging his body into the Ise and covering it with was’e lon. karborough said Wiles will be ktior.ed further in an effort to kin a definite motive. I t- hour search for Harris kd when e h’ood-stalned wisp lair was seen protruding from I pile of cotton waste under kh the boy's body had been Ml leaching a deserted house on I plantation, Wiles and the boy bred and inspected its i ter- [ young Harris exclaiming: poVTTvtrpyn "nv PAGE KITO I — 0 iport Gage Infant Is Greatly Improved fickle Gage, small son of Mr. and • Robert Gage, is recovering P the effects of swallowing a Put shell Saturday morning. The 1 became lodged in the bronM tubes and the child's condl- | was extremely serious until May night. b* lad was taken to the Methoi hospital at Fort Wayne Saturuight. Art oxygen tank w - as usPutil Monday night when it was wed. He likely will be brought ! >e in a few days. o— - Ahr Injured In Auto Wreck d Ahr, local stock buyer, residon the Bellmont road, received Mes this morning about 9 o’k when the car which he was ■ng was struck head-on by' an 'mobile, near the William SellVer farm on state road 27, ; h of Decatur. Ahr was returning to Decafrom Berne when the accident lr ed. A truck and an automobile ® approaching him from the •h and he neared the first car, driver of the automobile sud'y Pulled out to go around the h. striking the Ahr car headonname of the driver of the car c h figured in the accident was ‘earned. r - Ahr received several cuts and lees and an Injury to his left which necessitated several dies. The Ahr automobile was Pletely wrecked and was >ght to Decatur by the Decatur 1 Top and Paint company.

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i ripples Arrested For Counterfeiting Lafayette, Jnd„ Dec. 26—<U.R>— I Lewis L. Penn, 26. and Truman |H. Cline, botn of near Camden. I Ind., were under fl,ooo bond to- ■ day following their arrest here on I I charges of making counterfeit i 25-cent pieces. Officers said the suspects took them to a bogus cola plant on a farm near here, where more than ' 100 counterfeit quarters were' I found. The two men were said to j j have declared they used the | quarters only in slot machines. I I Both are crippled. TO KEEP ROADS CLEAR OF SNOW County Highway Workers Will Keep Roads Open To Traffic The county snow plows are ready for service and every effort will be ( made to keep the roads open to traffic, Ralph E. Roop, supervisor, stated today. If the snow continues to fall and pile up during the day. the plows will start out tonight, Supervisor Roop stated. “We can’t do anything until it stops snowing. With i 1 only three or four Inches of snow on the county roads, the plows scrape more stone off the roads than snow. It looks as If the storm would continue and our road as- j sistants and truck drivers will be ready at a moment’s notice,'' Mr. Roop stated. Mr. Roop stated that there was | some misunderstanding relative to the letter he sent out last week ordering postponement of county road work until January 2. In no way did the order pertain to CWA l or PWA workers. Mr. Roop stated that only the truckmen were as-, 1 footed and that the assistants had ' not been working. The order at- I fected five truckmen and did not stop any work which should be carried on. The postponement of work until after the first of the year is customary so that highway assistants can bring in their equipment for inventory purposes. This is the heaviest snow storm 1 of the year. The county has only , three snow plows and about 750 < miles of road to cover. If it is necessary to put the plows to work the men will operate them through-' out the night and clear as many I highways as possible. — oMcNutt Speaks To Illinois Teachers Indianapolis. Dec. 26.—<U.R>—G° v Paul V. McNutt went to Springfield. 111., today where he will ad-| dress the Illinois State Teachers' Association before continuing to j Florida for a two weeks’ vacation.i Mrs. McNutt and their daughter, ; Louise, will meet the Governor at ; Atlanta. _ . I He will address th© Florida State Teachers' Association at Tampa Thursday, proceeding to Miami where the McNutts will join Wayne ! Coy executive secretary, and his family. They will return here Jan. i 15. FOUR BANDITS HOLD UP STORE Shoot Way Out of Five And Ten-Cent Store W ith Thousands In Loot Springfield, 111-, Dec. 26—•'U.PJ—' Four bandits shot their way out of a crowded five-and-ten cent store today and escaped *'^B°, eral thousand dollars Li Christ _ aK receipts although two of their number were believed to be wounded by police bul ' et ß. Three bandits entered the store which was crowded with patrons "traded by a clearance sale, bandits went to tbe office and obtained he rene’pts. One gunman guarded •heir retreat. As lhe holdim was in nrogre»s. Detectives William Schaefer and Thomas Howarton entered th gtoro . They been had sen to guard a messenger in taking t. « hank. '“‘•'•Stop where Yotl are '" Bh ° ut ® d the bandit guard to the detectives. ••This is a stick up.” Schaerer jumped behind a countON PAQE SXX)

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LOCAL GROCERY STOREROBBED OVER WEEKEND Ed Miller’s Grocery Looted By Thieves Early Sunday Morning TWO HOMES ARE ENTERED MONDAY Thieves broke into the Ed Miller West End Grocery on west Adams street Saturday night and took mer- ’ chandlse and cash worth about $125. Entrance was made bv breaking out a rear window which opens on a small kitchen. Ed Miller, the proprietor, stated i that the robbery must have taken place early Sunday morning as he worked late Saturday taking care of his Christmas business. He discovered the loss Sunday morning when he opened up. The thieves took seven or eight sacks of flour, 10 or 12 dozen eggs, his entire Christmas stock of cigarettes, tobacco, and other groceries. They also took a small amount of change and the key to the front door out of the cash register. Police are working on the theory j that this was not connected with | the string of housebreakings which - has occurred in the last week. In | the previous instances the thieves took only cash, leaving behind clothing and valuables. It is believed that the robbers escaped in an automobile in which they piled their loot. Fresh cinders at the rear , of the store made identification of tire treads impossible. Last night thieves broke into the Lew Murphy residence on North Third street and completely ran- 1 sacked the upsalrs without the fa- . rnily hearing them. Nothing was I reported missing. The Ben DdVor home on West Adams street was also entered last night while the family was away. Mr. DeVoss's son, Dr. Harold V. Devon went down to the house last * ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ADOLPH HANNI IS POSTMASTER Representative Farley Names Hanni Postmaster At Monroe Adolph Hannie has been named , postmaster of the Monroe postoffice, Lhe appointment being made on recommendation of Rep- ] resentative James I, Farley of the. Fourth congressional district. Mr. Hanni is a well known i resident of Monroe and has taken an active part in Democratic poli- [ tics ever since he was old enough to vo'e. He is committeeman ! from North Monroe precinct. Mr Hanni will assume office December 31, 1933 at the close of business for the day, succeed! iK G H Oliver who has held the post more than eight years. He: received his commission yester-1 day and was more than p'eased wi'h the Christmas present from Uncle Sam. The new Monroe postmaster is also well known in Decatur. He Is a foundryma’.r by trade and for several years has been employed as a night foreman at the Decatur Casting company. He is married and the father of two children. a boy and a girl. With the announcement or Haimi’s appointment also came the appointment of Louis r. Fuelling of Allen County as postmaster at Woodbum. Mrling is a former resident of Adams conntv and has a number of relatives living in the -ortheast part of the county. . 0 — Pn C ''ivp Os Disastrous Fire Word has been received here that the newspaper plant, the Tuscon Star, owned by William R. Ma'hews, at Tuscon, Arizona, was entirely destroyed by fire a week ago today. The loss was the entire plant and building beincr destroyed and the Star is now being published from the office of the Citizen, compel Ing paper in that city. Mr. Mathews is well known here, his wife, who is a daughter of the late Dr. J. S. Boyers, having resided here until her marriage.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, December 26, 1933.

Move Spruce Tree At Court House A crew of three men under J. M. I Gaskill, local landscaper, will move one of the large Austrian spruce i trees In front of the peace monu-1 ment tp the northeast corner of the court house square where it will be used as a permanent Christmas tree. The labor will be paid - from CWA funds. The tree Is about ten feet high and has been obscuring the view of the monument. Two others in the same group will be set near Elephant Rock to take the place of two that have died. Small evergreens will be set in front of the peace monument. Mr. Gaskill and his crew consisting of Floyd Hunter, D. Tumbleson, and William Shackley, have just completed landscaping the Decatur athletic field. More than a hnni dred shade trees were set out. | ’ Two fences and a double row of I 1 shrubbery line the driveway on: southeast corner. The nursery stock was bought by the Decatur school board. o CHRISTMAS DAY OBSERVED HERE Decatur Citizens Observe Day Quietly; Heavy Snow Falls Decatur and community spent a quiet Christmas. The weather was ideal for church-goers, large ■ congregations attending the serv-' ices. Snow began to fall in the , evening and by nine o’clock the city had a white Christmas. ! No bit ths were reported on ' Christmas day, the stork giving way to Santa Claus and his bag | full of toys for the tiny tots who I hgd been anticipating his visit i for weeks. The Good Fellows Santa Claus j visited more than 40 homes Christmas Eva and turned sad ( faces into joyful glee as he presented them with candy, toys and warm clothing. About 140 children were remembered by the Good Fellows. The gifts were i distributed by young women, members of the Delta Theta Tan sorority, snonsors of the Good Fellows club in this city. Several robberies were reported over the ho’iday week-end. No serious accidents or fires occurred. A false alarm yesterday asI ternoon awoke ma’v from peaceful siestas and sent them hurrying outside, only to learn tint ’ someone got excited and thought the smoke coming from a stack , a' the Cloverleaf Creameries was the scene of a destructive fire. Ministers of all churches re- : ported unusually large attendance at the services Sunday and on 7novTTNYTTnr» ov pagh? vtvfj To Install Masonic Officers Wednesday Officers of the Masonic Blue Lodge will be installed Wednesday i night at 7:30 o’clock. Following lithe installation ceremonies lunch J will be served. Cal E. Peterson, i past master of the lodge will act i as Installing officer and all mem- | bers are asked to attend. I! o WALKS CLEARED OF HEAVY SNOW City Employes Clear Sidewalks; Suggest CWA Workers To Aid •| Street Commissioner H. Fred Linn had the city snow plows out early this morning clearing the sidewalks so residents could go to work. All the walks in the city were dragged and cleared of snow. Several men were employed to make paths so that pedestrians could go and come from their homes. The suggestion was miade today to city officiate that application be made to the CWA for a number of I men to shovel the snow off the streets and along the curb in the uptown district. Automobiles were stalled in the deep snow and ,traf- , sic was slowed down. If a number of men could be obtained through the CWA all the snow could be shoveled and hauled away, opening the streets to all kinds of traffice and getting away from the slush when the snow strata melting.

COMPILE LIST FOR CAMPAIGN County Agent Is Compiling List For CornHog Campaign Lydia Lehrinan and Annette 1 Lengerich have started to work in | the county agent's office compiling i the mailing list for the corn-hog campaign from the county assess- i or's records. They will list all' persons growing ten acres or more j of corn for 1932 and all persons having one or more sows In 1932 and 1933. County Agent L. E. Archbold will attend a district corn-hog meeting j tills week at Huntington and stated that corn-hog pamphlets explaining the plan will be put into the mail ■ soon. Many Adams county farmers are ; interested in the corn-hog produc- . tlon control plan, Mr. Archbold ’stated. The Misses Lehrman and Lengerich were appointed through the I CWA petition being made about two weeks ago for employment of women in this county. There have been a number of Ini quiries at the county agent's office as to how corn loans may be se--1 cured. Loans will be made only lon shelled field corn, grade three i 'or better, and must be stored in ' I warehouses, licensed under the pro- , visions of the United States warehouse act. Loans may be made by any bank, ! cooperative marketing association, : or persons lending money to proi ducers on eligible corn warehouse receipts. o More CWA Projects Are Approved Today Indianapolis, Dec. 26 —■ (UP) —. After a week-end rest the state! I civil works board today approved !93 new projects to employ 3,469 i men at wages totaling $387,872. The approvals increased totals for all projects to 3,540 employing 162,9992 at wages aggregating $23,317,070. COUNTY BOARD HOLOS SESSION Commissioners Are Reviewing Application For Old Age Pensions The county commissioners were I still in session today reviewing the i applications for old age pensions The board thought that they would finish the job late this evening or sometime Wednesday. The applications are being classified and those entitled to a pension, not exceeding sls a month, will be notified previous to being placed on the list. The commissioners will meet Thursday to allow bills and to re- . ceive bids for furnishing office t j equipment in the auditor's office 1 and other material needed by the ' county. J Bids for infirmary supplies will also be received by the board. The commissioners will not meet ! New Year’s day. The ’board will convene on Tuesday, organize and I then go to the county infirmary to assist in the taking of thg annual .iventory. Appointments will probably be made next Tuesday or Wednesday. Among the appointments are the naming of a road supervisor, county physician, coun- ' ty health officer, assistant road superintendents, infirmary superintendent and a trustee of the hospital. No changes are expected In [ the present personnel. o ; Desperado Escapes From Insane Hospital ► I Lima, 0., Dec. 26 —(UP) —'A state , wide search was conducted today , for Neal G. Bowman, Stark county desperado, who escaped from the • Lima State Hospital for the crimin- , al insane, after locking an attend- ■ ant and four inmates in a small i storage room. , The escaped man, member of the , I Bowman brothers band of robbers . which terrorized southern Ohio several years ago, fled in a stoien auto- . mobile after sealing the wall with i the aid of a section of fire hose. i The attendant, Frank DeVoe said I he was confronted by Bowman as he entered the tuberculosis ward • and was forced into the storage room at the point of a revolver.

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AVALANCHES IN WESTERN STATE SPREAD TERROR — Flood Stricken Areas Are Terrorized By Avalanches Today LIST OF DEATHS NOW TOTALS 23 Portland, Ore., Dec. 26. — (U.R) — Avalanches spread a new terror toi day in the flood-stricken areas to the northwestern states where unusually heavy rainfall and high i tides spread death and destruction over Washington, Oregon and , Idaho. The list of deaths attributed to I storm conditions reached 23 when four members of a single family were killed near Clatskanie, Ore. A torrent of mud, logs and boulders, swept along by O. K. Creek, crushed the home of Robert Allen, 60, and killed the owner of the house and his three sons, George, 30; Robert 12, and Donald, 7. Mrs. Allen and two other children escaped Injury. Donald, whose body was missing, was seen trying to rescue a pet dog before the slide carried him ' away. An earlier landslide on the Maple Valley road south of Seattle buried two women and injured two men. Weather forecasts for rain and more snow during the day brought little cheer to 5,000 refugees whose homes were in the inundated areas of Washington and Oregon. Flood | waters receded somewhat at Aberdeen and Hoquaim, Wash., but an ON PAGE SIX) o Report Fishing Tug Crew Lost South Haven, Mich.. Dec. 26 — (UP)—Au unidentified fishing tug was reported to have capsized two miles south of here today and sunk with all hands on board. Coast guard officials were unable to determine immediately the name of the craft, its port, or size of its ' crew. o Ickes Threatens To Rescind Funds Washington, Dec. 26. —(U.P.) Sec- ■ retary Ickes, administrator of the ; public works organization, threat-1 ened today to rescind allotments of funds to communities which fail to put men to work immediately. Fifty million dollars is tied up. ' he said, in contracts under the : jurisdiction of coal communities on ; which no action has been taken. ' Os these contracts, 172 were sent out before Dec. 1, and 135 after-; ward. Unless the communities act im • mediately, the contracts will be cancelled, and the money realloted Ito other local governments, whose requests for funds now outstrip the i ■ $230,000,000 remaining of the orig- ' > inal $3,300,000,000 (B) public works I ■ fund, Ickes said. FOUR DROWN IN LAKE MICHIGAN > 1 Fishing Tug Is Broken Up, Sunk By Heavy Lake Waves 11 Michigan City, Ind., Dec. 26.— ((jr) —Four men were drowned in . Lake Michigan today when huge' waves whipped by a northeast. wind capsized their 50 foot steam fishing tug, Martha, at the en-1 trance to the Michigan City harbor. I They were Walter Biddle, 32; William Klemick, 41; Wallace Martowski, 28, and Tony Gay Ike. ' 30, all of Michigan City. ’ The craft was returning at noon | ’ from a fishing trip which started. * at 6:30 a.m. As it neared the har-; ' bor it was caught by cross waves ' in the trough of a huge roller. 1 The pilot lost control and the ! vessel sank before coast guards- ’ men could arrive from their sta- j 1 tion a quarter of a mile away. Blinding snow hampered efforts ■ of the coast guardsmen to find 1 the bodies as they were forced to . ; search the beach. One of the; I bodies was caught on a rock at ’ the edge of a pier but was wash-i 1 ed back into the lake. s j The craft was owned by R. C., Ludwig, Springfield, 111.

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Indiana University Instructor Is Dead Bloomington, Ind.. Dec. 6—(U.R) | —Prof. J. A. McGaughn, 69, head I | of the mathematics department of! Bloomington high school and Instructor at Indiana University, ■ died yesterday after a long illness. He was a former principal of Kokomo high school. Funeral services will be conj ducted tomorrow. o TWO SUSPECTS | ARE ARRESTED Chicago Police Arrest Two In Connection With Dillinger Gang Chicago, Dec. 26 — (UP) — A platoon of Chicago policemen, pledged to round up a combined gang of Indiana outlaws and Chicago gangsters, was credited today with two arrests over the holiday week-end. The department held Jack (West Side) Barry and Milton Crouch, both reputed to be part owners of taverns. Barry was arrested upon a tip that John Dillinger, notorious Indiana convict, was seen in Barry's apartment. Crouch, a former Indiana convict also was suspected of connection with the Dlllenger gang. Dillinger and five companions were sought in Chicago. The men are believed responsible for the recent killing of police sergeant William Shanley a crime that led to the concerted search for them. All of the suspects are convicts who broke jail in 'lndiana or Ohio and defied Indiana National guardsmen and peace officers for several days. In their efforts to roundup this gang, police visited Edward Shouao former member of the gang who was returned to Indiana penitentiary after a shooting affray at Paris Illinois. Shouse said that Dillinger, Harry Pierpont, Charles Markley, John Hamilton. Russell Clark ’’cONTINVEn TO PAGE FIVE FRENCH WRECK TOLL NEARS 200 Neadv 100 Critically InWreck Sunday Paris, Dec. 26- (U.R) —Cabinet ministers, their Christmas saddenI ed by the most tragic railway accident in French history, made plans today for a national funeral tomorrow morning for victims of the Agny wreck. After hours of work, eoirstrueI tion gangs this morning cleared the second track of the line whore I the Strasbourg express, travelling !at more than 50 miles an hour, plowed through the wooden coaches of the Paris-Nancy train, and traffic proceeded normally past ’he wreck scene. There were 194 known dead today, with 90 desperately Injured in hospitals here and at Meaux. The dead lay In the Chane Ardent under the eastern station here in •he dim light of holy candles. Many of the children, lying in the long rows of dead, still clutched Christmas teddy bears and dolls. Inquiry into the cause of the wreck continued to center on the operation of safety sleials. These failed in a test yseterday—though ' two persons testified that the semaphores beside the tracks and ! the torpedoes placed on the rails ; as signals in the dense fog work!ed normally when the wreck ! occurred. — o Accuse Armenian Os Killing Bishop New York, Dec. 26. —(U.R) —Matos Leyllglan, stocky Armenian revolutionary, was accused today by police of being the actual wielder of the butcher knife that ended the | life of Archbishop Loen Tourian, primate of the Gregorian Catholic church, during Sunday services at the Holy Cross chnreh. Leyllglan and four others held in .'connection with the crime were paraded in the police lineup today latter an all night questioning at ;the district attorney's office. They were to be arraigned later.

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SEVERE COLD, HEAVY SNOWS CAUSEDEATHS Scores Os Fatalaties Are Attributed To Storm And Floods FOURTEEN VIOLENT DEATHS IN STATE By United Pres# A storm of blizzard intensity swept virtually all of the North American continent today, bringing heavv snows and severe cold from northern Aln«ka to the southeast I United States. Scores of fataluties attributable to the storm were, added to a death to'l of 23 ners on s in northwestern floods. Snow flurries which fell scat’aring'y yesterday from Ka >sas to New York changed during the night to a steady fall which im ! peded tiraffio In metropolitan areas and blocked rural roads with deep drifts. Chicago had 7 inches of snow this morning, with the fall continuing. AH points In the storm belt reported a similar . blanket. The mercury reached Its lowest , noint at Evele'h, Minn., where it fell to 42 decrees below zero. Rhinelander, Wls., reported 31 below, Devi's Lake, N. D., 26 below, Moorehead and Duluth, Minn., 24 below and Mason City, ’' la.. 13 below. The weather bureau forecasters said that the storm would conI tinue through the night. Snowfall might cease, observer# said, , 1 but the accompanying cold wave > would become more severe and enter new territory. Temperatures ’ in the middle west were expected ’ to sink from 10 degrees above zero, to 10 and 15 degree# below. Points as far south as Kentucky ’: a:d Virginia were expected to ' feel severe temperatures. .Storm warnings were posted from Sandy Hook to Eastport, Me., with a strong northeast wind sweeping the seaboard. Cold Wave Indianapolis, Dec. 26 — Z U.R) — I A cold wave which will drop | temperatures below zero will ‘ strike Indiana with the cessation i cf snowfiii; to tight, the United States weather bureau predicted . here today. The cold area is sweeping In from the northwest. Snowfall will I continue in flurries for a time but will cease by tomorrow morning, i it was predicted. Temperatures in the northern part of the state probably will ra’ige be'ween five below and five r above Zere tonight with the ’ southern portion experiencing f i slightly less severe weather. The snowfall was general throughout the sta'e last night and today. Evansville and Louis- ,! * enNTTNt’Ert TO PAGE P 'VR _□ —— DEATH CLAIMS HENRY JACKSON 1 • Kirkland Township Farmer Died Early Sun- > day Morning 1 Henry S. Jackson, 84 year old 3 farmer of Kirkland township, died j at his home at 5 o'clock Sunday a morning following a two months A illness. Mr. Jackson was a member „ of the Decatur United Brethren 1 Church and had resided in AdB ams County for 62 years. .! He was born in Jeromsville, Ohio k June 20, 1849, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth SpanglerJaUkson. both deceased. His marriage to Rebecca Chronister took place In this city on February 3. 1874. She preceded j him In death on August 14. 1925. Surviving are the following childa ren: Mrs. Sarah Belle Arnold and h Katlieryn E. Jackson of Decatur; y William Jackson of Craigvllle; Mrs. r Almeda Stone. Fort Wayne; Mrs. e Armlntha Engle, Westerville, Ohio. lt Brothers and sisters surviving c Jacob Jackson', and Mrs. Amanda t Meng, Jeromesville, Ohio, and Mr*. Susan Pepker of Ashland, Ohio. n Funeral services were held at e the local United Brethren Church y Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at ,t with Rev. C. . Roberts officiating, y Burial will be made to the Decatur cemetery.